How do I manage pupil behaviour?
There is no one solution to this and success will depend on school, class, pupil, environment, your mood and a whole host of factors!
It is important that you analyse your school’s behaviour management policy but the following discipline policy sanctions can be highlighted;
- Give extra work to be completed after school or at home.
- Verbal chastisement after lesson or after school.
- Form Tutor’s detention with 24 hours notice.
- Subject Teacher’s detention/with 24 hours notice.
- Departmental detention with 24 hours notice.
- Faculty detention with 24 hours notice.
- School detention. This can only be issued by the Senior House Tutor/Head of Faculty or by a senior member of staff and must have 24 hours notice.
- Head Master’s detention. This can only be issued only by the Head Master or a senior member of staff with 24 hours notice.
- Use of individual daily report sheets issued by Senior House Tutor. This is then overseen by Form Tutor or Senior House Tutor.
- Use of class report sheets which is issued by Senior House Tutor.
- Exclusion from a lesson.
- Fixed term exclusion. In the case of exclusions exceeding 2 days, work should be set.
- Chairman of Governors’ warning.
- Permanent exclusion, involving the Governing Body and the School Attendance Panel
Feel free to add your own points in the comments section.
These are all sanctions or consequences for after the unwanted behaviour has happened. Good behaviour management depends on good relationships - between adults and peers. Interesting and appropriately differentiated curriculum and a firm but fair approach digressions. Persistent consistency where sanctions are concerned. Behaviour Advice’s approach is:
1. Build relationships and co-operative working practices - Different from being ‘best pals’
2. Ensure work at appropriate level - give prompts and scaffolds to those who need it. Flow/ keeping busy all important
3. Focus on the work not the behaviour - small but inevitable consequences for transgressions
Have you considered asking students to reflect on their behaviour? Coaching techniques could be used here such as asking them to see the lesson through the teacher’s eyes etc.